Baglung – The Police has issued a ‘Red Corner Notice’ to arrest Image Savings and Credit Cooperative Society President Dev Kumar Nepali, who is also the mayor of Baglung’s Dhorpatan and is missing after embezzling almost Rs2 billion from depositors and banks.

A case is going on against 8 people including Nepali and his wife for misappropriating the funds of the cooperative. In order to arrest Nepali and his wife Chela Nepali, the Police Headquarters has issued a ‘Red Corner Notice’ through the International Police Network (Interpol) of police around the world.

Suspecting that the Nepali is hiding abroad, the victims of the cooperative demanded that a red corner notice be issued. DSP Madan KC of Baglung said that Interpol has issued a red corner notice to arrest the couple. “Now, if it is known in which country he is, the police of that country will search and hand him over to Nepal,” DSP KC said, “It is necessary to track his location.”

1,550 people filed a police complaint against him. Based on the complaint, the public prosecutor’s office has filed a case of organized fraud in the district court. The court had issued an arrest warrant against him in may.

Nepalis have embezzled 1 billion 60 million rupees from the savers of the cooperative. Apart from that, it has been seen that couple have taken almost 350 million loans from Global IME Bank, National Cooperative Bank and Garima Bikas Bank.

Based on the case, other officers of the cooperative, Chitra Bahadur Bhandari, Narmati Budha, Shakti Kisan, Dor Bahadur Pariyar and Anita Budhamgar have been arrested.

They have been sent to pre-trial detention by the order of District Court Baglung .The treasurer of the organization, Lakshmi Sen Sunar, was also arrested by the police from Lalitpur on Thursday.